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mister_universe@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

One serving size seens to only 0.25 grams. It’s so small amount that those numbers makes perfectly sense. Don’t panic about calories. Focus more on sugars.

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Rothe@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The thing is the serving size is fictional.

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CTDummy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What doesn’t make sense is anyone pulling out a scale, accurate to that degree, to measure out 0.25g of oil. No one is realistically going to get 1532 serves out of that bottle. The serving suggestion may as well say “rubbing this on your face is 0 calories”, ok but if it’s used for salad or frying?

Most people are just going to see 0 cal, think it’s healthy and layer it into their food. As others have said, most countries having realistic servings and an easier to interpret per 100g/ml/whatever to prevent this sort of deliberate misrepresentation. Which stops company dividing the product size by whatever number is needed to make it round to zero.

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- testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  This is a spray oil though. You wouldn’t use it for salad or frying. You’d do a brief spray on a waffle iron or cookie sheet to stop stuff from sticking.
  
  I agree 1500 servings seems like too many, but not wildly too many. I doubt I spray more than half a second of oil on a cookie sheet before dropping cookies on it. 800+ sprays seems perfectly reasonable. And at that scale, the actual amount of calories is a little immaterial.
  
  No one is layering this into their food. Aerosol spray oil is more cooking tool than food you eat.
  
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  - CTDummy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    People wouldn’t use spray oil for frying? So you think half a second (which is double the vague 1/4 second serving size suggestion for this btw) is all you use every time, because I seriously doubt that.
    
    800 is more reasonable? That’s almost halving the amount of servings in the bottle off the jump. I’m confused what your point is here. No one is using only .25g of this stuff or spraying it .25 of a second. You wouldn’t even be able to cover both sides of a waffle iron with .5 second spraying. This, again, obviously a way to misrepresent the nutritional information of the product.
    
    Do you seriously look at 0g of fat for an oil product and think “oh yeah, this seems legit”? Regardless of its use it still end up on your food (especially for waffles…), more than 0.25g is going to be used in a given meal and 0cal is obviously bs. Wild to see people advocating for companies using deceptive nutritional information because “um well actually 0.25g is a really small amount” which is almost entirely beside the point.
    
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    testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Sure, it’s a misleading label, but lets not pretend anyone is gonna accidentally eat 100+ calories of it.
    
    Let’s make a liberal estimate. Lest say it’s actually 3cal/serving as listed. Let’s say you spray it for 5s (way more than I’ve ever sprayed a bottle of PAM). That’s 60cal for the entire sheet pan of whatever it is you’re making. If you’re gonna eat the full sheet pan of cookies you are baking I hate to break it to you, but the 60cal of cooking spray probably isn’t moving the needle. And that’s the most liberal application I can think of.
    
    Have you used aerosol cooking spray before? Are you using enough to make a puddle in your frying pan? Cause if so you’re using it wrong my guy.
    
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